Unheralded American Allie Kiefer Gets 5th in NY Marathon After Doing Cross Fit and Running 25 Miles over 6 Months Last Year

runn wrote:

Is there more information on Project Moonshot?

I can't find anything.

Major correction for your headline- according to THIS excellent article:

http://featured.flosports.tv/allie-kieffer-chasing-happy

from June of last year until the beginning of this year, she hadn't run more than 25 miles total. That averages out to one mile per week!

‘Well, since I stopped training in June I haven’t run more than 25 miles in the past six months.’

“It was funny because I was self-identifying as a runner but not doing it at all. It kind of sparked something inside of me to get back to running seriously.”

So she ran this off of only 11 months of serious training after a six-month layoff.

Forget how many miles she ran the last half of last year how many miles has she been running with her Nike project moonshot.

intrigued by the idea of "1600 meters of elevation" in buffalo. seems factually impossible, unless they meant she took a road trip to mt marcy or something (and then ran up and down multiple times, or ran a couple thousand loops around the summit)?

coach wrote:

Forget how many miles she ran the last half of last year how many miles has she been running with her Nike project moonshot.

It's posted in the article. About 100/wk with lots of 20-24 mile days. All the more impressive coming off of essentially nothing a year before.

I've been in it. I'm not sure if they'll repeat it but it was set up to help 100 athletes target personal breakthroughs in fall marathons - mainly nyc. 75 were paying applicants who got coaching, and advice, discounts and invites to events etc. 20 were "sub - elites" (Nike terminology, few would meet the LR criteria for that designation), who got free food, massages etc. and quite a bit of swag. 5 were celebrities but I never knew who they were beyond Kevin Hart.

Allie's was obviously the stand - out performance but Angela Ortiz qualified for the OT yesterday as well and there were a number of other great runs.

The coaching was one size fits all and geared to beginner marathoners. Unless Allie's experience was very different from mine (I don't know her well), she must have put together her own training plan and deserves all the credit for yesterday.

FAKE NEWS

Allie Kiefer: looks like more evidence that flies in the face of the LetsRun simpleton incorrectly advocating to "lose weight to get faster":

http://cdn.running.competitor.com/files/2016/06/Kieffer_Allie-NYmini16.jpg

I saw Angela Ortiz's time as well. She ran a great race too.

This should be combined with the other thread on Allie. Just a suggestion.

perhaps the time off was a major benefit. she's 30. been running a long time. taking a break could be magic sauce for older runners.

vivalarepublica wrote:

This should be combined with the other thread on Allie. Just a suggestion.

+1

Live to run wrote:

Allie Kiefer: looks like more evidence that flies in the face of the LetsRun simpleton incorrectly advocating to "lose weight to get faster":

http://cdn.running.competitor.com/files/2016/06/Kieffer_Allie-NYmini16.jpg

That pic is not from NYC, is it?

lardito wrote:

Live to run wrote:

Allie Kiefer: looks like more evidence that flies in the face of the LetsRun simpleton incorrectly advocating to "lose weight to get faster":

http://cdn.running.competitor.com/files/2016/06/Kieffer_Allie-NYmini16.jpg

That pic is not from NYC, is it?

It's over a year ago. Can't find a pic from the race at NYC, but in the interview she looked much leaner in the face anyway, like an elite marathoner.

Yes, it is from NYC. Her bib says NYRR Mini 10k 2016.

More like this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/860616640626475008/ntVGfXX0.jpg

Heiffer wrote:

lardito wrote:

That pic is not from NYC, is it?

It's over a year ago. Can't find a pic from the race at NYC, but in the interview she looked much leaner in the face anyway, like an elite marathoner.

She ran 35:13 in the race she is pictured in here, 3 minutes off of what she ran a number of months earlier. So it actually seems more like evidence to support the letsrun (and running community as a whole) mantra that being a lower BMI (within reason) results in faster times.

I think the lesson from Shalane and Allie's success is that marathon runners need a break every now and then. Unfortunately, most will only get a break when they are injured. But I wonder how much better pros would be if they adopted a 3 seasons on, one season off approach to marathoning.

Sdfsdfsdfsdfsdcsfc wrote:

She ran 35:13 in the race she is pictured in here, 3 minutes off of what she ran a number of months earlier. So it actually seems more like evidence to support the letsrun (and running community as a whole) mantra that being a lower BMI (within reason) results in faster times.

Allie's average pace yesterday was 35:4x lol